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Joining vs Increasing - What's the difference?

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Joining is a related term of increasing.


As verbs the difference between joining and increasing

is that joining is while increasing is .

As nouns the difference between joining and increasing

is that joining is the act or result of joining; a joint or juncture while increasing is (knitting) an increase.

joining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of joining; a joint or juncture.

    • increasing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (knitting) An increase.
  • * 1864 , The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine (page 277)
    • Now begin the increasings for the chest by making 2 stitches in the fourth stitch; repeat this, increasing in every fourth row, but 1 stitch further each time, so as to form a slanting line, the same as a dress-pleat.